Vice President Kamala Harris broke her lengthy quiet on the border issue on Tuesday, announcing that the private sector will invest roughly $2 billion more in Central America, even though thousands of migrants from the region are making their way to the US-Mexico border.
The White House portrayed the $1.9 billion investment proposal as the latest effort to address the root causes of widespread economic migration to the United States.
Kamala Harris Unveils Central American Program
Miami-based Millicom is investing $700 million to expand cellular networks in Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador. Visa is investing $270 million to promote digital payments, and auto parts supplier Yazaki is investing $110 million to hire more than 14,000 workers in Guatemala and El Salvador by the end of 2026.
Whatever the long-term impact of the investment plan, it is not likely to have an impact on the caravan presently traveling through Mexico. At least 6,000 people marched north from Tapachula, Mexico, on Monday, hoping to get into the United States.
Figures of the caravan's official size vary. On Monday, organizer Luis Villigran told Fox News that the caravan spanned more than 32 kilometers and that 9,500 people were taking part.
The caravan included around 11,000 individuals, with some speculating that the number may rise to 15,000; however, the Mexican government has neither issued an official estimate of the caravan's size nor made any public remark on it, as per New York Post.
President Joe Biden tasked Harris with tackling the root causes of migration, especially from the Northern Triangle, which encompasses Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador. While Harris travels to Los Angeles for the meeting, thousands of migrants, many of whom are Venezuelans, set off from southern Mexico on Monday in an attempt to reach the United States. This week, at least 6,000 individuals departed the Mexican city of Tapachula near the Guatemalan border on their way north to the United States.
All of the Northern Triangle leaders are not attending the meeting this week, and even Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is skipping the activities, despite the country's 2,000-mile border with the United States. The presidents of Guatemala and Honduras have indicated that they would not attend summit sessions this week, instead of sending other officials.
During the Summit of the Americas on Tuesday, Harris will also push a private sector woman-focused project to link 1.4 million women to the banking system. It also intends to teach over 500,000 women and girls job skills so that they may more readily enter the labor field and sustain themselves and their families.
Also on Tuesday, Harris' office announced the launch of the Central American Service Corps, a $50 million initiative funded by the US Agency for International Development (USAID) that will provide young people in the Northern Triangle nations with paid community service opportunities in areas such as education and violence prevention. According to Daily Mail, White House statement, the expenditures are intended to "give hope for individuals in the area to establish safe and productive lives at home."
Judge Calls Out Kamala Harris' on Border Crisis
On 'The Five,' Judge Jeanine Pirro slammed Vice President Kamala Harris, stating that she doesn't deserve to be vice president, should quit, and isn't performing her job.
On Monday, the co-hosts of the Fox News Channel show asked where Harris has gone as the border crisis escalates out of hand. The greatest migrant caravan in history is apparently approaching the US border, and the vice president is saying nothing about it.
"She didn't even call the guy. There's supposed to be diplomatic relations... she's gotta be so lazy," he contended before mocking Harris even more, as per Bizpac Review.
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